Publications

August 1990
Case

General Foods Corp.: Adapting to the New Electronic Media

By: Stephen A. Greyser

Keywords: Advertising; Media; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry

08 May 2018
News

How HBS Helped Wolfgang Puck Build a Food Empire

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

2016
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Doug Rauch and the Daily Table

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Peter Zimmerman and Penelope Rossano

Former Trader Joe's President Doug Rauch developed an innovative idea to address the challenge of food insecurity, food waste, and nutrition. His concept was a new retail grocery model, offering nutritious affordable food to a food insecure population in the inner city... View Details

Keywords: Food Insecurity; Grocery; Social Entrepreneurship; Food; Health; Nonprofit Organizations; Boston

20 Jul 2016
News

The Woman Behind One of Africa’s Leading Food Brands

26 Sep 2019
News

Harvard Business School Online and The Greater Boston Food Bank Team Up to End Hunger

June 1999
Case

Wegman's Food Markets: Lehigh Valley Grand Opening (Video)

By: David E. Bell

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

Educators

07 Dec 2015
News

Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is on a mission to change the way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, he is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food... View Details

May 1985 (Revised February 1990)
Case

American Food and Grains: Commodity and Ingredient Procurement

By: David A. Garvin

Keywords: Operations; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

Article

Free Food Delivery for the Elderly Would Be Smart

By: Scott Duke Kominers

Read Now

Summer 2013
Article

Negotiating Taste: Food Market Research in the Hagley Library

By: Ai Hisano

Read Now

December 1992 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Marks and Spencer P.L.C.: Food Leadership in the 1990s

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Food; Food and Beverage Industry

06 Dec 2020
News

The Pandemic Boosted Food Delivery Companies. Soon they May Face a Reality Check

March 2015 (Revised March 2018)
Case

Zipongo: Improving Health by Redesigning the Food Chain

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Juan Enriquez and Kevin Liang

Educators

January 2006 (Revised August 2008)
Case

Vivaldi Food Concepts--The Start-up of an Asian Venture (A)

Joel Silverstein needs to raise an additional $1.5 million from private investors to round out the equity financing for his new Quick Service Restaurant venture in China, Korea, and Japan. How should he pitch the opportunity? What should be the terms? View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan; China; South Korea